The Ajatavada

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The Ajatavada :

 

Ajatavada means the the creation which we see has never been created

at all. It is an illusion and is not really there. They say that

even the effort to find out how this creation has come about is a

compromise - it reveals ignorance of the truth. The above two vadas

start with a presumption of taking the world to be really there,

which itself may be baseless. To start any process of understanding

with a possibly wrong & baseless presumption is obviously not the

right way of enquiry. Strangely enough if we start this enquiry

whether the creation is really there or not then we get astounding

results : it is seen that it does not have any independent existence

at all. This is what the drishti-shrishti-vadins too subsequently

prove. If this is a fact then why waste time to prove creation of

something which is not really there. To temporarily accept a

falsehood is not compassion but a compromise and wrong, and has all

the consequences of other falsehood. Truth should be declared as

truthfully as possible - in its raw form. The entire effort of the

Ajata-vadins is the communicate how the creation has never come

about and therefore is just an illusion. It is only after the

realisation of the complete ephemerality & illusoriness of the

creation that even the thoughts of it are naturally effaced and when

the creation stands totally negated in this way then alone the ever-

existent & self-effulgent reality becomes evident & revealed. So

Ajatavada which has been revealed by the Mandukya Upanishad and

explained in texts like Yoga Vasishta is the ideal way of looking at

the world which is conducive & compatible to awakening to the

transcendental truth. The Ajatavada is not basically designed even

for the knowledge of Self, it is a fact by itself, and the knowledge

of Self follows the right knowledge of that which obstructs our

complete attention of the truth, namely the right knowledge of truth

of the creation.